Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is the apparent goal of “equity” programs.
Note that this joke is made, but better, in TFA. With an accompanying (non-original) graphic.
It's not a joke and there's nothing funny about it.
Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity
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#42> Guess what? Children are educable. If you invest the resources of the state in poor kids and underrepresented minorities, they will learn. It is shocking to me that this has to be said. What in the world...
Ironically, "educable" is tough for me to get out. It's a very mouth-full-of-marbles word.
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How do you know who's doing well then? Seems like eliminating quantitative measurements will only make things worse.
How about eliminate grades but only have standardized exams? Standardized exams are less susceptible to the grade fiddling.
Then they spend the whole year “studying” for the standardized test and learn nothing. That’s how it currently is and I don’t see that changing. Standardized exam scores are utilized for funding.
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#44I don’t know why this author needs to use this issue as a political cudgel against “progressivism” - I don’t see anything particularly progressive about this policy vs the Dallas one he also mentions - the goals are exactly the same, to bring more equity to disadvantaged and minority students.
Here is what Jo Boaler has to say on the issue: https://patch.com/california/across-ca/lets-move-past-acrimo...
she claims that having different math tracks creates a “mathematical nowhere” for some students that stop at algebra 2, but absolutely nothing in her system really alleviates this non-issue or makes it better. It’s honestly such a nonsensical policy to me that has nothing to do with politics whatsoever, in my mind, but people will inject what they believe into what they see.
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#46A common phrase of the "soft bigotry of low expectations" is at work here. Those held to lower standards will fall to lower standards, deprived of the resources and support to achieve. The article attached provides a fantastic explanation.
https://www.educationnext.org/teachers-should-replace-the-so...
Re: Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity
#47Goodhart's Law: when a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure.
We have a generation if activists and policy makers that have grown up seeing measurements as the ground truth, that they have list sight of what they were trying to accomplish.
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#48Stuff like this is why I will remain a proponent for true vouchers for the rest of my life. No parent should be stuck without options when educational governance goes sideways like this. Pull your kid. Find them a school that gives them the greatest opportunity to succeed and use the funds earmarked for their education to ensure they receive it. Currently, options are restricted to parents who can afford to move to a…
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#49Stuff like this is why I will remain a proponent for true vouchers for the rest of my life. No parent should be stuck without options when educational governance goes sideways like this. Pull your kid. Find them a school that gives them the greatest opportunity to succeed and use the funds earmarked for their education to ensure they receive it. Currently, options are restricted to parents who can afford to move to a…
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I'm for vouchers because I don't think I should have to pay with my taxes for religious indoctrination masquerading as public education.
Re: Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity
#50Stuff like this is why I will remain a proponent for true vouchers for the rest of my life. No parent should be stuck without options when educational governance goes sideways like this. Pull your kid. Find them a school that gives them the greatest opportunity to succeed and use the funds earmarked for their education to ensure they receive it. Currently, options are restricted to parents who can afford to move to a…
As a parent I'm realizing that many of the institutions not only set up kids to fail, but set up parents to fail too.